The British Army\u27s African Recruitment Policy, 1790-1807

The article is drawn from a presentation to the Five College Black Studies Seminar Series, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 25 February 1982. It argues that delays in the British abolition of the slave trade was related to military policies and imperial interests

San Francisco: 50 Years On - Part Two

Buckley describes how Britain took the independent step of recognizing the People's Republic of China, a step which led to problems about China being invited to the San Francisco conference. After China's entry into the war in Korea, Hong Kong's trade was squeezed through trade embargos imposed by the United States and its exposed security system was vulnerable, had it not been for the presence of the US 7th fleet in the Taiwan Straits. Ferretti shows that the leading ideas of Yoshida Shigeru on relations between Japan and the People's Republic of China did not change after the failure of the Dulles-Morrison Agreement as he continued to pursue normalization with the PRC. He had the idea of joining the Colombo Plan and entering the markets of Southeast Asia by establishing a preferential bilateral axis with Britain but this was ultimately rejected by Britain at the time of Yoshida's visit to Europe in 1954. Meaney describes External Affairs Minister Percy Spender's views on the need for a Pacific Pact. When it became clear from discussions with Dulles early in 1951 that the treaty with Japan would not be punitive or restrict her rearming, Australia called for some sort of security agreement with the United States. This came to fruition as the ANZUS Pact which was signed and ratified more or less simultaneously with the San Francisco treaty. Trotter discusses New Zealand's reaction to the Australian initiative over the need for a security pact. While she had considerable reservations, most notably over relations with Britain, she appreciated the need for security guarantees and joined the ANZUS Pact.San Francisco Peace Treaty, Peoples Republic of China, Korean War, Hong Kong, US 7th Fleet, Taiwan Straits, Colombo Plan, American-Japanese Security Pact, ANZUS Pact, Yoshida Shigeru, Percy Spender, John Foster Dulles, Herbert Morrison, Southeast Asia, Japan, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, United States.

Kobe, Cars and Korea:Current US-Japan Relations, 1995

この論文は現在の日米関係における諸問題を考察し，悪化しつつある2国間関係を改善する為の提案を試みるものである。本文では1995年に日米官界同盟が抱える問題（神戸・自動車・北朝鮮）を取り上げ，歴史的枠組の中に位置づけている。結論として深まりつつある日米関の講を埋め予想される将来の緊張を緩和する為に今，多大な努力が必要である

Declinism and Contemporary Japan: History versus Masochism, 1945-2000

1990年代における日本の経済不振は、国内外の多くの評論家に日本の将来展望に対する疑問をいだかせるようになった。この論文では、“declinism”が現代日本の本質的な経済・金融の基盤を無視するとき、それは有益な構想ではない、ということを議論する。1945年以後の日本の発展を顧みることで、日本を衰退の一途をたどる運命と論じる日本経済終需論は相殺されるのである